Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)

RKL (Lithuania Basketball League)

Founded	2005 (2005)
First season	2005–06
Country	Lithuania
Confederation	FIBA Europe
Number of teams	32
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	NKL
Relegation to	RKL B Division
Website	rkl.lt

RKL (Lithuanian: Regioninė Krepšinio Lyga, English: Regional Basketball League) is a third Lithuania basketball league. Regional Basketball League started their activity in 2005. RKL consists of 32 basketball teams from 28 Lithuania cities. Regions divided to four groups: Aukštaitija, Žemaitija, Suvalkija and center of Lithuania. Each group has eight basketball teams. In the 2006-2007 RKL season, there was some differences as the regions was divided to two groups: East and West of Lithuania and the number of participants was 28 (14 teams for each group). There is B Division of RKL, which is the 4th tier basketball league of Lithuania.

League champions

• 2005–2006 season (debut): BC Mažeikiai
• 2006–2007 season: BC Juventus
• 2007–2008 season: Šiaulių ABRO-Saulė
• 2008–2009 season: BC Radviliškis
• 2009–2010 season: BC Ežerūnas-Karys
• 2010–2011 season: BC Ežerūnas-Karys
• 2011–2012 season: BC Olimpas Plungė
• 2012–2013 season: BC Trakai
• 2013–2014 season: BC Rasai
• 2014–2015 season: BC Telšiai
• 2015–2016 season: KTU
• 2016–2017 season: BC Tauragė
• 2017–2018 season: BC Gargždai-SC
• 2018–2019 season: BC Lūšis
• 2019–2020 season: KK Perlas Vilkaviškis
• 2020–2021 season: BC Kretinga
• 2021–2022 season: BC Rivile

External links

• Official website of Natural Pharmaceuticals-RKL (Lithuanian)